Lille Russetind
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Route description:
Follow the trail as it heads up and into the Kjusakdalen valley. Higher up, the valley turns right and
becomes more narrow. After 5.8 km you are at the bottom of the impressive, broad ridge that heads upwards.
Your location is now north 69:09.255, east 019:33.258 at elevation 471 meter. Continue up the ridge, the slope
is pretty easy, but you will observe the crux area above, a somewhat steeper band that runs across the broad
ridge. The steeper part is on your left above 1240 meter of elevation.
An ascending traverse that gains more gentle slopes immediately to the right
(west) of the steeper rocks will get you up and above this obstacle.
From here, continue uphill towards the horizon ridge, then follow this (well away from the edge!)
to the summit.
Comments:
I did this climb with my friend Ståle Grimen.
This was his 6th. (and last) peak in a week of our T5 expedition. I drove him to
the Tromsø airport well ahead of the departure time.
We started at 0715, hit the summit at 1215, stayed for 30 minutes and
returned down in 2:15, arriving at the car at 1500.
I received a nice email from Aadne Olsrud confirming that the name of this peak
really is "Lille Russetind", which means "the small Russetind", this is a bit
funny as there is also a "Store Russetind" (Big Russetind), nearby, but Lille Russetind
is the highest peak in this area.
This was peak number 8 in my T5 trip.
Next peak Vanntinden.
Previous peak Snøhetta.